Well this isn't good

This article refers to my area http://m.startribune.com/special-an...-proposed-surprises-support-groups/436046803/


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13 deer per hunter. Yikes. It was unlimited FREE doe tags in Wisconsin for a while. And we still have cwd.

 

I'm very frustrated with the Mn DNR. Lou has got to go! He is using cwd as a political tool to reduce deer numbers. I just hope the hunters of our state remember what happened the last time the dnr gave out too many tags to hunters and they choose to not fill them all! This doesn't effect me as of now but I hunt 2 zones away from the new cwd testing area in crow wing county and I'm sure they'll find at least one case and start wiping out our deer herd too...

 

If hunters do not kill all the deer they might die.

 

Logic per the Mn Dnr...

 

Honestly who is going to process and eat 13 deer in a year? That has to be 1000 pounds of processed venison.

 

here a thought...only shoot the deer with cwd!

 

Again jeesh did you see the pictures from last year?

 

the sad thing is alot of the deer killed in those pics probably didnt have cwd. these are the pics that get hunters hated

 

Wow! How bout those pics! Surely there is a better solution to this problem of CWD.

 

There is. Don't set out any attractants or bait products before, after, or during the season if there is EHD or CWD in your area. You see a confused drooling deer, shoot it and call the DNR. Other than that, let it run it's coarse. Sometimes I think we like to play God a little too much.

 

Yeah but the deer yard up and congregate in the winter, banning feeding will not stop that.

 

At the end of the article is says the one group is going to suggest/request not having the hunt on Public land in the area because there isn't much. so if this is mostly private land, doesn't this just put the management onto the hunters/land owners? If they don't want to take 5 deer, they don't have to. Isn't that what we are all basically calling for, letting us hunters be responsible for managing the deer on our land? If they shoot all the deer, are they not just hurting themselves?

 

Even without the CWD hunt it's still pretty bad in some places. I know of a few properties personally that when it went Intensive harvest for a couple of years, those properties would fill every single tag... It's sad as heck really too think about how greedy some people are. One property shot 25 deer in the first 2 days of gun season, while the surrounding properties didn't even see a deer. I have my thoughts on how that one happened since they don't even have a good piece of property...

 

I thought sick deer (Deer with CWD) are normally ostracized by the herd. So they would get run off if they tried to join the group. However, if one visits a bait site and then leaves, the next deer to partake in said site shall surely get more than the came for. no?

 

I have never herd that. (misspelled intentionally)

 

I can't really sight my source but, I guess I've just always thought that being in MOST cases in the wild, sickly or weak (pack/herd) animals will be left, pushed out, or even killed by there own. It's natures way of protecting the herd/pack.